PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

• Confidential professional with 9+ years of experience in the software services industry.
• Working domain experience in the areas of Banking/Financial, Payroll.
• Conversant with all Phases of Software Development Life Cycle include Business requirement and Technical Detailed Analysis,
• Design Documentation, Test beds/Test plan preparation, Development, Testing, Configuration Management, Deployment and Maintenance of the projects.
• As part of projects in the previous organizations was involved in the execution of projects under onsite/offshore model, experience of working as a programmer, Quality Assurance (QA) analyst.
• Expertise in using Test management tool HP Quality Center, JIRA, Configuration management tool CHANGEMAN, File editor tool FILE - AID/FILE-MANAGER, Debugger tool XPEDITER and Scheduling tool CA-7.
• Experience includes Confidential programming using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, CICS, IBM Utilities, SORT, TSO/ISPF, MVS and Z/OS.
• Expertise in development of API scripts and running CICS commands CEMT, CECI, CEBR, CEDF and CEDA.
• Experience in Test Plan preparation, Test data preparation, Test case preparation and execution, Defect analysis, Defect fixing and Defect tracking.
• Excellent Knowledge of BATCH and ONLINE process running on Mainframe.
• Effective interpersonal skills to co-ordinate and participate in a team environment.
• Worked on development of innovative concepts to bring system stability and cost saving.
• Over the course of the career, had responsibilities of Developer, senior developer and production support co-ordinator, Quality Assurance Tester.
• Rewarded by the client for implementing High business visibility project with Zero production defects by owing full responsibility of Development testing and providing UAT support.

TECHNICAL SKILL

Operating Systems: Z/OS, MVS, Windows

Programming Languages: C, COBOL, JCL

SQL Job Schedule System: CA - 7

Tools: /Utilities Used CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, FILE-MANAGER, XPEDITER, NDM, FTP, MQ-Series, TSO/ISPF, IBM Utilities, JCL Utilities, QMF, SPUFI, QUIKJOB, Easytrieve, SORT

Software Products/DB: VSAM, CICS, DB2, SAS

Controls: HP Quality center, Teamforge, GSD(Global Service Desk), Lotus Notes, SharePoint, ALM Manager, JIRA, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Programmer Analyst/QA Analyst/ Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

• Interact with business and technical teams in requirement/design review to provide inputs on completeness of functional requirement, product designs.
• Preparation of test strategic, test plans, test scenarios/cases and test data.
• Extract/build test data by running SQL queries using SPUFI on DB2 tables for Data analysis and test execution.
• Testing of whole batch functionality by executing COBOL programs using JCLs and use of TSO/ISPF, File-Manager for file verification to ensure new and existing functionality does not get affect.
• Work on abend fixes occurred during testing.
• Testing of online functionality using CICS screens and Web applications.
• Defect logging and fixes review.
• Perform regression test after defect fixes to ensure nothing is broken down with recent fixes.
• Generate execution detail report and hand over to Project Manager, Business users and owner for review.
• Document test procedures to ensure repeatability and compliance with the standards.
• Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on test results.
• Seek sign off on project from business users and owners based on test results.

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, SQL, SPUFI, DB2, CICS, File-Manager, QC-ALM, SharePoint, Defect tracking tool, ALM Manager, JIRA, ServiceNow.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked actively on the design of new process and analysis of impact if any existing process was changed.
• Worked on Development and testing of new JCLs and COBOL programs for enhancements in the application.
• Worked on test bed and test data preparation.
• Performed Unit, Integration and System Testing, captured the test results and participated in reviews to ensure quality of changes.
• Supported test batch cycles during QA testing.
• Fixed the defects discovered in testing.

Environment: MVS, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, SQL, CICS, File Aid, CA-7, CHANGEMAN, NDM, FTP, Quality Center, XPEDITER, Easytrieve.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in monitoring the Batch Cycles.
• Involved in fixing abends such as Space abends, File contention errors, and VSAM space abends.
• Extensively used Sort techniques to filter the corrupt data from huge files during production abends caused by corrupt data.
• Responsible for preparation of support schedule and co-ordination with the team /client in production crises with proper protocols.
• Responsible for ensuring the batch cycle is completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Responsible for updating of support document with recent issues and uploaded on portal.

Environment: MVS, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, File Aid, CA-7, CHANGEMAN, NDM, FTP, GSD.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Code changes as per design document, testing of code changes
• Defect analysis and fixing defects
• Batch cycle Monitoring

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CA-7, CHANGEMAN.